Velocipedes



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A. E. WALLACE.

WHEEL FORVELOOIPEDES.

Patented Jan. 26, 1886.

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ITF STATES PATENT FFlCE.

ALBERT E. 'WALLACE, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE POPE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

WHEEL FOR VELOCIPEDES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,829, dated January 26, 1886.

Application filed February I, 1885. Serial No. 155,191. (No model.)

To all 1072,0712 it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT E. VVALLAOE, of Hartford, Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Construction of Wheels for Velocipedes and other Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

My improvements relate to that class of wheels known as suspensionwheels, and more particularly to the spokes and hubs or hub-flanges of such wheels.

The objects of my improvements are,to pro duce a lighter and at the same time a more rigid wheel than has heretofore been constructed, at the same time observing the requisites of comliness in structure and economy in manufacture.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows in elevation parts of a bicycle-wheel embodying my improvements in one form; and Fig. 2 shows in vertical section, on a plane at right angles to the plane of elevation in Fig. 1, a part of the same contrivance. Fig. 3 shows a part of the same thing as Fig. 2, with a modification; and Fig. 4 shows a part of the hub flange similar to that in Fig. 1, with a modification, which modifications will be apparent from the following description.

A is an axle, and B is a hub-flange, which may be attached to the axle by means of a nave, d, in any desired manner.

C is a crown, which may be in the form of the exterior portion of the disk B, and forged, spun, or otherwise shaped so as to project first at right angles to and then upward from the face of the disk or hub-flange, so as to present in cross-section a segment of a circle.

D D are metallic spokes, which 'may be attached to the hubfiange by heading one end,

as at d, and passing through the small holes 0 c in the hub-flange, and bent, as at 03, over the curved surface of the crown C, and may then be attached to the rim B in any desired manner.

E is the rim or felly of the wheel, and F is the tire.

My improved wheel is constructed with the spokes set in pairs, as D D, and instead of being carried directly from the hub to the rim in a line with the radius, one branch of the pair is carried on one side and the other branch on the opposite side of the radius-line of the wheel, passing at or between their points of attachment to the hub-flange, so that the line of either branch of the spoke, as I prefer to make it, shall run at an angle of about twenty degrees from the radius-line, and each member of either pair of spokes will cross and be in contact with one corresponding opposite member of the next pair, the crossing being at d as shown.

The dotted line at xrepresents the line of radius, and the spokes D D, taking their attachment to the hubflange nearest this dotted line, forming one of the pairs, as described. 6

The crown C may have a still further projection or lip, C, notched, as at c c, for each individual spoke, thus forming another steadying-point for the spoke, and preventing displacement or movement of the spoke at the crown when in use.

It is obvious that this kind of wheel may be adapted to use in tricycles, or in other vehicles where, instead of the hub-flange secured to the axle, there might be a similar 7 flange connected with the hub; However, of course, in this kind of wheel I intend to describe it as having a'fla-nge with its spokes, See, attached to the axle or hub at any desired distance-say five or six inches from that shown in Fig. 2, and to the left of it, as seen in the drawings-with their naves b united,forming the hub; and the spokes might also be attached otherwise than by heads d, and the angle of the spokes with the radius- 8 line may be different, and their modifications may be made in form, proportion, and ar rangement without departing from the object ofmy invention, and I do not mean to limit myself to the precise construction shown and described.

I claim as new and of my invention- 1. In a suspension-wheel, a hubfiange having a nave for attachment to an axle, means for attachment of the spokes, a crown to receive the draw of the spokes, and a supple mental rim, C,with notches c, to receive and stay the spokes, essentially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a suspension-wheel, of flange B,with perforations c, for the spokes, IOC crown C, and spokes D D, constructed and operating essentially as set forth.

ALBERT E. IVALLACE. WVitnesses:

- E. S. House,

F. E. BELDEN. 

